my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has changed the political dynamic inside iran? it has because on the 16th of september, she was declared dead in the hospital. the day after, on the 17th, there was a funeral in her hometown of saqqez in the province of kurdistan there are four kurdish provinces in iran and it was a spontaneous protest movement erupted in saqqez, her hometown, and it soon spread to sanandaj, the capital city of that province. and two days after that, on the 19th, it was a general strike called by the cooperation center the kurdish political parties which was fully observed. and after that, they called for a peaceful evening dem
walter reed, there was nowhere else to go. this is a conversation that i have had with myself or anyone unable to address their depression. they start to have dark conversations about self-harm. things continue to tick off the list. i kind of hit the emergency brake further. i can t be a blueprint for my children. i cannot let them be left alone or to not understand why he would ve done that. earlier in the year two friends of mine, one had a stroke and the other had a bad heart attack. they both had young children and took their lives. it was very devastating. not because they were weaker or i was strong, i got lucky. i knew that i needed help. i didn t know what that looked like. it was presented. i reluctantly was like i don t need to go in there. i figured out this is the right choice and that is where i ended up. i know this is so hard to talk about. just to be clear, you are saying that you had thoughts of harming yourself? yeah. i ve said that publicly. at
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